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Show Winter Quarters. WINTERQUARTERS, Ut., March 18. A few days ago we expected spring, but today we have about ten Inches more snow. On the shady side of the hills tho snow is from four to ten feet deep. Tho mines hero are working their full force every day in order to catch up with their orders. Coal Is sold six months before it's mined. The dally output Is about 1,300 tons. One thousand loads a day for ono hundred years are In sight. Coal may bo scarce around towns, but it's no better to the people living about tho mine. Today they may leavo an order for coal and get It in sixty and ninety days. The U. P. Coal company has decided to open up their mine here at Scofleld which has been closed for the past ten years. They have a large forco of men at work clearing away the old buld-Ings buld-Ings making room for new machinery, and it would do anyone good to just take a walk into tho U. P. mine and see the amount of coal that has fallen during tho ten years. Lumps of coal ranging from 200 pounds up to 200,000 pounds and so on. Their main entrys are forty feet wide by twenty-five to thlrty-fivo feet high; no props are used and It would take ten men six months to remove tho coal that lies loose upon tho tracks. Tho mine Is about one-half one-half mile fast of Scofleld". Miners make from 93 to 810 per day: union men need not apply, Plenty of milk, but vegetables veget-ables are scarce; Hour Is selling for 83, potatoes 81.00 per hundred, milk 7 cents a quart, eggs 40 cents per dozen, butter 40cent,smcat 15 to 20 cents rer pound, dressed chickens 25 cents per pound. From the looks of things at tho coal yards, coal will be a thing of the past to many If they don't'lay in a supply six month beforelmd. The health of the people Is considered consid-ered good, very little sickness. We have about, six months' winter, two crops of ice Is gathered ranging from twenty to thirty Inches to each .crop In thickness, |